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There’s not much being added to Jeremy’s character. Or really Lowen’s character…we just keep learning more about Verity as we get to read more of her autobiography, but our other main characters are remaining stagnant.

I do relate with the way Verity describes her disgust and repulsion during pregnancy and being a mother. That’s how I feel, which is exactly why I would NEVER risk being a mother and would never birth a child I hated. Obviously.

If this had been written as a horror with a side of romance it would’ve been better.

Colleen Hoover is obsessed with trauma and tragedy…I’m only a third into this book and there is trauma EVERYWHERE. Big T Trauma. Actually, just fully-capitalized TRAUMA

It is very hot writing, if not realistic at all. Like I think this is how some women dream getting proposed to, but nothing is that perfect.
There’s some weird layering between who an author is without her books and who she is with her books and how people perceive you differently.

I don’t like how the character believes she’s pathetic for being curious

It’s really captivating writing, especially when it gets explicit, but it makes me uncomfortable. This power dynamic is overdone…like the woman literally says that she “needs” the man after only knowing him for three days and half that time is spent “f**cking”? No, thank you. I dislike immensely the idea of love taking over a woman’s brain. Like she seems smart…and then…